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[ACTIVITY] 27 November - 1 December 2017

by Prathamesh Kulkarni

== This Week == * TCWG-1234 (6/10) - WIP patch * Public Holiday (2/10) * Misc (2/10) - PR83142 - Meetings == Next Week == - Continue ongoing tasks

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[ACTIVITY] Week 48

by Yvan Roux

* One day off * One day sick and half one in the snow == Progress == o Linaro GCC/Validation * GCC 6.4 and 7.2 binary releases deployed * 2017.11 snapshots: - 6.4 and 7.2 ready to be deployed o LLVM ramp-up * Upstream BZ 32999: - Struggled to construct the testcases which produce the DAGs needed for a good coverage - Re-working sub-vectors indexes logic to handle these testcases. o Misc * Various meetings and discussions.

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[ACTIVITY] 27th Nov -- 1st Dec

by Yao Qi

# Progress # * TCWG-1040, [6/10] Update my patches to remove the last use of MAX_REGISTER_SIZE. Post the whole patch series as an RFC. There are 15 patches, but I rewrote them in seven times. This version is quite satisfying. Targeting to GDB 8.2. One patch can't be merged until 8.1 is branched. * TCWG-1125, ARMv8 tagged address support in GDB. Writing v3. [2/10] * Misc, [2/10] # Plan # * TCWG-1125, * GDB 8.1 release. Testing for ARM and AArch64. -- Yao Qi

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[ACTIVITY] 27 November - 1 December 2017

by Christophe Lyon

== Progress == * GCC - FDPIC:debugging linker assert while building gcc target libs * GCC upstream validation: - reported a couple of regressions * Infrastructure: * misc (conf-calls, meetings, emails, ....) == Next == * GCC/FDPIC * GCC upstream validation

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[ACTIVITY] 20 - 24 November 2017

by Prathamesh Kulkarni

== This Week == * TCWG-1234 (6/10) - Using dfs to compute bb dist - Reading through rest of PRE/SCCVN to better understand the infrastructure * PR82808 (2/10) - Trying to find an approach to pass parm_type from all callers. - Martin posted a patch to address the parm_type issue. * Misc (2/10) - Meetings - Filed PR83194, browsing through other PR's. == Next Week == - Continue ongoing tasks

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[ANNOUNCE] Linaro Binary Toolchain Release GCC 7.2-2017.11

by Mark Murray

The Linaro Binary Toolchain ============================ The Linaro GCC 7.2-2017.11 Release is now available. *Notice*: GCC 7.1 ABI change for arm*-*-* targets, and note for aarch64*-*-* targets From GCC 7.1 release notes: On ARM targets (arm*-*-*), a bug introduced in GCC 5 that affects conformance to the procedure call standard (AAPCS) has been fixed. The bug affects some C++ code where class objects are passed by value to functions and could result in incorrect or inconsistent code being generated. This is an ABI change. If the option -Wpsabi is enabled (on by default) the compiler will emit a diagnostic note for code that might be affected. https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=77728 GCC 5 and GCC 6 releases will continue to be affected by the ABI bug, since changing ABI in these releases is not practical. A warning enabled by -Wpsabi option was added to GCC 5 and GCC 6 toolchains to diagnose codebases that might be affected by the ABI bug. Additionally, this same bug was present in AArch64 backend in development versions of GCC 7. There was no releases of GCC with this bug present in AArch64 backend, therefore the release notes does not mention this. However, be advised that any code bases built with development versions of GCC 7 need to be recompiled with released version of GCC 7 to conform to ABI. For an explanation of GCC 7 series changes please see the following website: https://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-7/changes.html For help in porting to GCC 7 please see the following explanation: https://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-7/porting_to.html Download release packages from: (sources) http://releases.linaro.org/components/toolchain/gcc-linaro/7.2-2017.11/ (binaries) http://releases.linaro.org/components/toolchain/binaries/7.2-2017.11/ Previous snapshots and release-candidates are at: http://snapshots.linaro.org/components/toolchain/binaries/ Previous releases are at: http://releases.linaro.org/components/toolchain/binaries/ A description of the arm and AArch64 target triples can be found at: https://collaborate.linaro.org/display/TCWGPUB/ARM+and+AArch64+Target+Tripl… Host Requirements ================== Linaro officially supports the current and previous Ubuntu LTS releases (as of the time of this release). This does not mean that the toolchain will not work on other/older Linux distributions. See the following for the life-time of Ubuntu LTS releases. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases The host system upon which the cross-compiler will run requires a minimum of glibc 2.14, because of API changes to glibc's memcpy API. https://bugs.linaro.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1869 Package Versions ================= Linaro GCC 7.2-2017.11 http://releases.linaro.org/components/toolchain/gcc-linaro/7.2-2017.11/ FSF glibc 2.25 (release/2.25) https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-gnu/2017-02/msg00002.html Newlib 2.5 (newlib-2_5_0 tag) https://sourceware.org/ml/newlib/2016/msg01191.html GNU Binutils 2.28 (users/linaro/binutils-2_28-branch) https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;a=blob_plain;f=bin… FSF GDB 8.0 (gdb-8.0-branch) https://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-announce/2017/msg00003.html Linaro toolchain package git branches are hosted at: http://git.linaro.org/toolchain NEWS for GCC 7 (as of Linaro GCC 7.2-2017.11) ============================================== * The Linaro GCC 7.2-2017.09 snapshot added float and integer moves improvement for AArch64 targets. * The Linaro GCC 7.1-2017.07 snapshot added prefetching configuration improvement for AArch64 targets and laid groundwork to enabling prefetching in more cases. * Previous MinGW hosted version of Linaro GCC C preprocessor failed to convert character set used for string, character constants, etc. This is fixed in this release. Linaro bugzilla #3040 : CC1 and cc1plus cannot convert UTF-8. https://bugs.linaro.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3040 * Performance related backports from the following snapshots have been included: Linaro GCC 7.1-2017.05, Linaro GCC 7.1-2017.06, Linaro GCC 7.1-2017.07, Linaro GCC 7.2-2017.08, Linaro GCC 7.2-2017.09 and Linaro GCC 7.2-2017.10. See the following Linaro GCC snapshots: http://snapshots.linaro.org/components/toolchain/gcc-linaro/7.1-2017.05/ http://snapshots.linaro.org/components/toolchain/gcc-linaro/7.1-2017.06/ http://snapshots.linaro.org/components/toolchain/gcc-linaro/7.1-2017.07/ http://snapshots.linaro.org/components/toolchain/gcc-linaro/7.2-2017.08/ http://snapshots.linaro.org/components/toolchain/gcc-linaro/7.2-2017.09/ http://snapshots.linaro.org/components/toolchain/gcc-linaro/7.2-2017.10/ Contact Linaro =============== File bugs at http://bugs.linaro.org For Linaro member support see http://support.linaro.org For Linaro community support email linaro-toolchain(a)lists.linaro.org IMPORTANT NOTICE: The contents of this email and any attachments are confidential and may also be privileged. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the sender immediately and do not disclose the contents to any other person, use it for any purpose, or store or copy the information in any medium. Thank you.

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[ANNOUNCE] Linaro Binary Toolchain Release GCC 6.4-2017.11

by Mark Murray

The Linaro Binary Toolchain ============================ The Linaro GCC 6.4-2017.11 Release is now available. The GCC 6 Release series has significant changes from the GCC 5 release series. For an explanation of the changes please see the following website: https://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-6/changes.html For help in porting to GCC 6 please see the following explanation: https://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-6/porting_to.html Download release packages from: (sources) http://releases.linaro.org/components/toolchain/gcc-linaro/6.4-2017.11/ (binaries) http://releases.linaro.org/components/toolchain/binaries/6.4-2017.11/ Previous snapshots and release-candidates are at: http://snapshots.linaro.org/components/toolchain/binaries/ Previous releases are at: http://releases.linaro.org/components/toolchain/binaries/ A description of the arm and AArch64 target triples can be found at: https://collaborate.linaro.org/display/TCWGPUB/ARM+and+AArch64+Target+Tripl… Host Requirements ================== Linaro officially supports the current and previous Ubuntu LTS releases (as of the time of this release). This does not mean that the toolchain will not work on other/older Linux distributions. See the following for the life-time of Ubuntu LTS releases. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases The host system upon which the cross-compiler will run requires a minimum of glibc 2.14, because of API changes to glibc's memcpy API. https://bugs.linaro.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1869 Package Versions ================= Linaro GCC 6.4-2017.11 http://releases.linaro.org/components/toolchain/gcc-linaro/6.4-2017.11/ Linaro glibc 2.23 (linaro/2.23/master) https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-gnu/2016-02/msg00009.html Linaro newlib 2.4-2016.03 (linaro_2.4-branch) https://sourceware.org/ml/newlib/2016/msg00370.html Linaro binutils 2.27 (users/linaro/binutils-2_27-branch) https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;a=blob_plain;f=bin… Linaro GDB 8.0 (gdb-8.0-branch) https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-gnu/2016-10/msg00007.html Linaro toolchain package git branches are hosted at: http://git.linaro.org/toolchain NEWS for GCC 6 (as of Linaro GCC 6.4-2017.11) ============================================== * Previous MinGW hosted version of Linaro GCC C preprocessor failed to convert character set used for string, character constants, etc. This is fixed in this release. Linaro bugzilla #3040 : CC1 and cc1plus cannot convert UTF-8. https://bugs.linaro.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3040 * The Linaro GCC 6.3-2017.05 snapshot added support for -mpure-code option to ARMv7-M and ARMv8-M targets. This option ensures functions are put into sections that contain only code and no data. * The GDB version was upgraded from GDB 8.0. * Previous versions of the Linaro GCC 6 toolchain, when -static -E/—dynamic-list are passed to the linker, might create executables with dynamic sections which aren’t supported by run-time. This was exhibited in Perf Tools build system and has been fixed upstream and backported into Linaro Binutils 2.27 branch. Linaro bugzilla #2926 : Perf tools compiled statically for AArch64 with Linaro release 6.1 and later ones was not statically linked. https://bugs.linaro.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2926 * The Linaro GCC 6.3-2017.03 snapshot fixed some ILP32 issues (TLS, exception handling, …) and these have been incorporated into this release. * Previous versions of the Linaro GCC 6 toolchain were incorrectly generating floating-point code for soft-float Linux targets (arm-linux-gnueabi, and armeb-linux-gnueabi). This escaped detection until recently because the soft-float targeted toolchains were configured to use general-purpose registers for passing floating-point values (which is what you would expect for soft-float toolchains) and the intra-routine floating-code was not noticed. The issue would only show up on targets that were run on hardware that truly didn't have floating-point hardware where the kernel did not trap and emulate floating-point routines. This has been solved in Linaro GCC 6.3-2017.02-rc2 by configuring the toolchain (using --with-float=soft) to generate code without any floating-point instructions at all (-mfloat-abi=soft). https://review.linaro.org/#/c/16968/2 This change should not break compatibility between existing binaries compiled with these toolchains since the float-point parameter passing ABI is still the same. * A bug/regression in the compiler has been identified whereby the target function that is invoked when calling a "weak" function directly is the "strong" override, whereas when calling the function via a pointer the "weak" implementation is used. This would be noticed as inconsistent function invocation when invoking directly vs. invoking via function pointer. This issue only affected 32-bit arm targets. This regression has been fixed upstream and backported into Linaro GCC 6.3-2017.02-rc2. GCC PR target/78253: [5/6/7 Regression] [ARM] call weak function instead of strong when called through pointer. https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=78253 Linaro bugzilla #2562: ARM GCC 5.2 call weak function instead of strong when called through pointer https://bugs.linaro.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2562 * MS Windows does not support symlinks and the MS Windows archive extractor does not properly deep copy the symlink target files/directories into the symlinked directory structure when unpacking the toolchain archive. This causes problems with missing dependencies when using the Linaro mingw toolchains, as identified in the following bugs: https://bugs.linaro.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2684 https://bugs.linaro.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2192 https://bugs.linaro.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2762 This has been solved by copying files rather than using symlinks when the mingw targetted toolchain archives are created. https://review.linaro.org/#/c/16415/ * Users of Linaro's toolchain have encountered problems when building projects with Autotools (specifically libtool): https://bugs.linaro.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2764 The Linaro binary toolchain release contained files with a .la suffix as artifacts of the toolchain build process. These .la files are helper files for libtool, but unlike a gcc install tree, they are not position independent and contain full paths. Since these artifacts contain absolute paths they can actually mislead user invocation of libtool into not finding required libraries (because they reference the build tree, not the install location) and hence breaking Autotools builds. These *.la file artifacts have been removed from Linaro toolchain binaries because they are unnecessary for users. * The Linaro GCC 6.3-2017.01 snapshot added further enablement for ARMv8-M and these have been incorporated into this release. * Compiling and statically linking some SPEC2006int tests against tcmalloc have been failing due to a problem with glibc's memory allocator function overrides. This was fixed upstream: https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=20432 Backported into Linaro glibc 2.23: commit 058b5a41d56b9a8860dede14d97dd443792d064b Author: Florian Weimer <fweimer(a)redhat.com> Date: Fri Aug 26 22:40:27 2016 +0200 malloc: Simplify static malloc interposition [BZ #20432] * Host binaries for x86_64 linux hosts now have symbols and debug information stripped in order to reduce the size of the toolchain binary archives. This reduces the archive size from 1.5G to 600M for aarch64-linux-gnu target with the gcc-6-branch. * The GDB version was upgraded from GDB 7.11 in the Linaro GCC 6.1-2016.08 release to GDB 7.12 in the Linaro GCC 6.2-2016.11 release. * The Linaro GCC 6.2-2016.10 snapshot added AArch32 support for ARMv8.2 and ARMv8m, as well as some AArch64 fixes for ARMv8.2, and bug fixes merged from FSF GCC 6.2. This is available in the binary toolchain as of Linaro GCC 6.2-2016.11. * Basic tuning support for the Qualcomm qdf24xx was added to the Linaro GCC 6.2-2016.10 snapshot and is available in the binary toolchain as of Linaro GCC 6.2-2016.11. * IFUNC was disabled for baremetal targets, as it was causing test-suite failures, and is presently a Linux only feature. * The gold linker was added to this binary release. * Backported malloc_lock fix into Linaro newlib 2.4. commit 2665915cfc46aa6403bb2efd473c523d3167e0cb Author: Andre Vieira (lists) <Andre.SimoesDiasVieira(a)arm.com> Date: Thu Jun 16 12:23:51 2016 +0100 Re-enable malloc_lock for newlib-nano * Backported rawmemchr patch into Linaro newlib 2.4. commit e7b1ee2ea6aa3ee1da41976407410e6202a098c5 Author: Wilco Dijkstra <Wilco.Dijkstra(a)arm.com> Date: Thu May 12 16:16:58 2016 +0000 Add rawmemchr * Backported strlen fix when using Thumb-2 and -Os -marm into Linaro newlib 2.4. commit 5c02bcc086a96b174e1b9e1445a4a1770070107a Author: Thomas Preud'homme <thomas.preudhomme(a)arm.com> Date: Wed May 11 17:18:48 2016 -0400 Fix strlen using Thumb-2 with -Os -marm * Backported fix for semihosting ARM when heapinfo not provided by debugger into Linaro newlib 2.4. commit 5c9403eaf40951f8a4f55ed65f661b485ff44be7 Author: David Hoover <spm2(a)dangerous.li> Date: Thu Apr 21 07:12:24 2016 +0200 Fixed semihosting for ARM when heapinfo not provided by debugger. * Merged latest FSF glibc release/2.23/master into Linaro glibc 2.23. * Backported __ASSUME_REQUEUE_PI check Linaro glibc 2.23 branch. commit 2d20c3bf918cd94ebd4106693adb3a5c9272baba Author: Adhemerval Zanella <adhemerval.zanella(a)linaro.org> Date: Tue May 17 10:16:39 2016 -0300 Add runtime check for __ASSUME_REQUEUE_PI (BZ# 18463) * Backported removal of __ASSUME_SET_ROBUST_LIST from Linaro glibc 2.23 branch. commit bb8f09d72756186a3d82a1f7b2adcf8bc1fbaed1 Author: Adhemerval Zanella <adhemerval.zanella(a)linaro.org> Date: Mon May 16 19:01:10 2016 -0300 Remove __ASSUME_SET_ROBUST_LIST * Backported removal of __ASSUME_FUTEX_LOCK_PI from Linaro glibc 2.23 branch. commit e48b4e7fed0de06dd7832ead48bea8ebc813a204 Author: Adhemerval Zanella <adhemerval.zanella(a)linaro.org> Date: Mon May 16 10:35:25 2016 -0300 Remove __ASSUME_FUTEX_LOCK_PI * Merged latest FSF binutils-2_27-branch into linaro_binutils-2_27-branch. * The libwinpthread DLL is now copied into the host bin directory to satisfy mingw package dependencies. * Backported GNU Linker fix. commit fbc6c6763e70cb2376e2de990c7fc54c0ee44a59 Author: Nick Clifton <nickc(a)redhat.com> Date: Tue Aug 23 09:45:11 2016 +0100 Fix seg-fault in ARM linker when trying to parse a binary file. * Backported GNU Assembler fix for PR 20364 commit 5fe7ebe5ab43750abf8f490b785d99a1e598e7fd Author: Nick Clifton <nickc(a)redhat.com> Date: Fri Aug 5 10:37:57 2016 +0100 Fix the generation of alignment frags in code sections for AArch64. https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=20364 * Performance related backports from the following snapshots have been included: Linaro GCC 6.1-2016.06, Linaro GCC 6.1-2016.07, Linaro GCC 6.1-2016.08, Linaro GCC 6.2-2016.09, Linaro GCC 6.2-2016.10, Linaro GCC 6.2-2016.11, Linaro GCC 6.2-2016.12, Linaro GCC 6.3-2017.01, Linaro GCC 6.3-2017.02, Linaro GCC 6.3-2017.03, Linaro GCC 6.3-2017.04, Linaro GCC 6.3-2017.05, Linaro GCC 6.3-2017.06, Linaro GCC 6.4-2017.07, Linaro GCC 6.4-2017.08, Linaro GCC 6.4-2017.09 and Linaro GCC 6.4-2017.10 . See the following Linaro GCC snapshots: http://snapshots.linaro.org/components/toolchain/gcc-linaro/6.1-2016.06/ http://snapshots.linaro.org/components/toolchain/gcc-linaro/6.1-2016.07/ http://snapshots.linaro.org/components/toolchain/gcc-linaro/6.1-2016.08/ http://snapshots.linaro.org/components/toolchain/gcc-linaro/6.2-2016.09/ http://snapshots.linaro.org/components/toolchain/gcc-linaro/6.2-2016.10/ http://snapshots.linaro.org/components/toolchain/gcc-linaro/6.2-2016.11/ http://snapshots.linaro.org/components/toolchain/gcc-linaro/6.2-2016.12/ http://snapshots.linaro.org/components/toolchain/gcc-linaro/6.3-2017.01/ http://snapshots.linaro.org/components/toolchain/gcc-linaro/6.3-2017.02/ http://snapshots.linaro.org/components/toolchain/gcc-linaro/6.3-2017.03/ http://snapshots.linaro.org/components/toolchain/gcc-linaro/6.3-2017.04/ http://snapshots.linaro.org/components/toolchain/gcc-linaro/6.3-2017.05/ http://snapshots.linaro.org/components/toolchain/gcc-linaro/6.3-2017.06/ http://snapshots.linaro.org/components/toolchain/gcc-linaro/6.4-2017.07/ http://snapshots.linaro.org/components/toolchain/gcc-linaro/6.4-2017.08/ http://snapshots.linaro.org/components/toolchain/gcc-linaro/6.4-2017.09/ http://snapshots.linaro.org/components/toolchain/gcc-linaro/6.4-2017.10/ Contact Linaro =============== File bugs at http://bugs.linaro.org For Linaro member support see http://support.linaro.org For Linaro community support email linaro-toolchain(a)lists.linaro.org IMPORTANT NOTICE: The contents of this email and any attachments are confidential and may also be privileged. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the sender immediately and do not disclose the contents to any other person, use it for any purpose, or store or copy the information in any medium. Thank you.

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[ACTIVITY] Week 47

by Yvan Roux

* 2 days off (Internal Training) == Progress == o Linaro GCC/Validation * Final GCC 5.5 release deployed and announced * GCC 6.4 and 7.2 deployed * 2017.11 snapshots on-going (branch merges done) o LLVM ramp-up * Upstream BZ 32999: - Addressing upstream comments. * Upstream BZ 35272: - Analysed and commented upstream. o Misc * Various meetings and discussions. == Plan == o Continue on on-going LLVM Bugs. o Wednesday off

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[ACTIVITY] 20-24 Nov

by Yao Qi

# Progress # * TCWG-1040, [4/10] Update my patches to remove the last use of MAX_REGISTER_SIZE. Commit my 1/6 patch series. Prepare 2/6 patch series. Need to be sync'ed with GDB 8.1 release. * TCWG-1159, [4/10] GDB flexible target description conversion. Commit patch for tic6x, and ready to post patches for nios2. * Run GDB testsuite with CLANG. [1/10] Commit my patches, but leave some controversial patches in my tree. Now, I get some reasonable GDB test result with clang. * Upstream patches review. [1/10] Approved four Alan's patches. # Plan # * ARMv8 tagged pointer support in GDB. * Update my patches to remove the last use of MAX_REGISTER_SIZE. -- Yao Qi

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[ACTIVITY] 20-24 November 2017

by Christophe Lyon

== Progress == * GCC - FDPIC: hitting a linker assert while building gcc target libs * GCC upstream validation: - reported a few regressions, fixed a couple of obvious errors - struggling with ST-internal infrastructure difficulties * Infrastructure: - looking at ABE & building a native toolchain from a manifest * misc (conf-calls, meetings, emails, ....) - became 1 year older :) == Next == * GCC/FDPIC * GCC upstream validation

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[ANNOUNCE] Linaro Binary Toolchain Final Release GCC 5.5-2017.10

by Mark Murray

The Linaro Binary Toolchain ============================ The Linaro GCC 5.5-2017.10 Final Release is now available. Notice: All Linaro GCC 5 series toolchain users should migrate to the latest version of the Linaro GCC 5 toolchain in order to mitigate potential security exposure to CVE-2015-7547. See the NEWS section below for details. Download release packages from: (sources) http://releases.linaro.org/components/toolchain/gcc-linaro/5.5-2017.10/ (binaries) http://releases.linaro.org/components/toolchain/binaries/5.5-2017.10/ Previous snapshots and release-candidates are at: http://snapshots.linaro.org/components/toolchain/binaries/ Previous releases are at: http://releases.linaro.org/components/toolchain/binaries/ A description of the arm and AArch64 target triples can be found at: https://collaborate.linaro.org/display/TCWGPUB/ARM+and+AArch64+Target+Tripl… Host Requirements ================== Linaro officially supports the current and previous Ubuntu LTS releases (as of the time of this release). This does not mean that the toolchain will not work on other/older Linux distributions. See the following for the life-time of Ubuntu LTS releases. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases The host system upon which the cross-compiler will run requires a minimum of glibc 2.14, because of API changes to glibc's memcpy API. https://bugs.linaro.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1869 Package Versions ================= Linaro GCC 5.5-2017.10 http://releases.linaro.org/components/toolchain/gcc-linaro/5.5-2017.10/ Linaro glibc 2.21 (linaro/2.21) https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-gnu/2015-02/msg00001.html Linaro newlib 2.1.0-2014.09 (linaro_newlib-branch) https://sourceware.org/ml/newlib/2013/msg01128.html Linaro binutils 2.25 (users/linaro/binutils-2_25-branch) https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;a=blob_plain;f=bin… FSF GDB 8.0 (gdb-8.0-branch) https://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-announce/2017/msg00001.html Linaro toolchain package git branches are hosted at: http://git.linaro.org/toolchain NEWS for GCC 5 (as of Linaro GCC 5.5-2017.10) ============================================== * Include Binutils fix for bugzilla #20364: Data-based padding causes current address evaluation to be non-constant on aarch64 https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=20364 * Include GCC fix for Linaro bugzilla #2575: ICE: declaration and definition of function with __attribute__((target("thumb"))) and inlined assembler, with debug symbols enabled https://bugs.linaro.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2575 * Include GCC fix for Linaro bugzilla #2575: Internal compiler error using -mtune=cortex-a57.cortex-a53. https://bugs.linaro.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2785 * The soft-float targeted toolchains have now been configured to generate code using -mfloat-abi=soft. This makes arm-linux-gnueabi and armeb-linux-gnueabi toolchains use the “soft” FP ABI instead of “softfp”. Historically, TCWG’s toolchains provided both “soft” and “softfp” multilibs, but when switching from crosstool-ng to cbuildv2/abe (which support a single multilib) “softfp” multilib was choosen. Using “-mfloat-abi=soft” is a better choice for a gnueabi toolchain, since it doesn’t require cores to have a floating-point unit. This change should not break compatibility for toolchain users since the ABI will stay the same. The compiler and glibc libraries will not refernce FP instructions. * Include GCC fix for Linaro bugzilla #2562: ARM GCC 5.2 call weak function instead of strong when called through pointer https://bugs.linaro.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2562 * Include GCC fix for Linaro bugzilla #1925: [regression] FAIL: libgomp.fortran/retval1.f90 -O1 execution test https://bugs.linaro.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1925 * Include GCC fix for Linaro bugzilla #2185: aarch64-linux-gnu-g++ internal compiler error: in curr_insn_transform https://bugs.linaro.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2185 * Backported glibc patch to simplify static malloc interposition [BZ #20432] to correct user identified issue. commit 058b5a41d56b9a8860dede14d97dd443792d064b Author: Florian Weimer Date: Fri Aug 26 22:40:27 2016 +0200 malloc: Simplify static malloc interposition [BZ #20432] * Host binaries for x86_64 linux hosts now have symbols and debug information stripped in order to reduce the size of the toolchain binary archives. This reduces the archive size from 1.1G to 580M for aarch64-linux-gnu target with the gcc-5-branch. * Removed .la files from binary toolchain archive as these files break autotools builds. https://bugs.linaro.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2764 * The mingw toolchains are now archived using the rsync -L option in order to avoid problems with Windows extractors and symbolic links. https://review.linaro.org/#/c/16415/ This resolves the following user bugs: https://bugs.linaro.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2684 https://bugs.linaro.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2192 https://bugs.linaro.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2762 * Copy the libwinpthread DLL into the bin directories so it gets into the tmp directory before tar is run. https://review.linaro.org/#/c/13723/ * Increment binutils release date to 2016_02 to reflect the most recent commit: commit ef90a4718f535cbe6345b4e7168baea7b1972abf Author: Matthew Wahab <matthew.wahab(a)arm.com> Date: Tue Jan 12 16:35:30 2016 +0000 [ARM] Support ARMv8.2 RAS extension. * Baremetal sysroot names now contain 'newlib' rather than 'glibc'. * Manifests now contain relative paths rather than absolute paths. * Now generating proper manifest files. * Fixed pi requeue support in glibc 2.21 while allowing the existing 2.21 minimum kernel default setting. This was checked into the linaro/2.21/master branch. commit a68cafa11c500d8a49a3014c43c5152859d037ae Author: Adhemerval Zanella <adhemerval.zanella(a)linaro.org> Date: Tue May 17 10:16:39 2016 -0300 Add runtime check for __ASSUME_REQUEUE_PI (BZ# 18463) commit 6e5cb616b5b442ce8b2664ad673c0acf42a490ac Author: Adhemerval Zanella <adhemerval.zanella(a)linaro.org> Date: Mon May 16 19:01:10 2016 -0300 Remove __ASSUME_SET_ROBUST_LIST commit 9ac61c0047295696cbcdbc26bdc174c7bd25a3c8 Author: Adhemerval Zanella <adhemerval.zanella(a)linaro.org> Date: Mon May 16 10:35:25 2016 -0300 Remove __ASSUME_FUTEX_LOCK_PI * Backported support into GCC for Cortex-A32, Cortex-A35, and Cortex-R8. * Applied fix for CVE-2015-7547 - A stack-based buffer overflow in glibc's getaddrinfo() was corrected in glibc 2.23 and backported into glibc 2.21. https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2016-02/msg00416.html * ARMv8.1 Instruction Support - ARMv8.1 instructions support was checked into GCC and binutils. It has been backported into Linaro GCC 5.3 and Linaro binutils 2.25. * Backported -Bsymbolic-functions into Linaro binutils 2.25. * Performance related backports from Linaro GCC 5.2-2015.11, Linaro GCC 5.2-2015.12, and Linaro GCC 5.3-2016.01-1, Linaro GCC 5.3-2016.02, Linaro GCC 5.3-2016.03, Linaro GCC 5.3-2016.04, Linaro GCC 5.4-2016.06, Linaro GCC 5.4-2016.10, Linaro GCC 5.4-2016.12, Linaro GCC 5.4-2017.02, GCC 5.4-2017.04 and Linaro GCC 5.5-2017.10 have been included. See the following Linaro GCC snapshots: http://snapshots.linaro.org/components/toolchain/gcc-linaro/5.2-2015.11/ http://snapshots.linaro.org/components/toolchain/gcc-linaro/5.3-2015.12/ http://snapshots.linaro.org/components/toolchain/gcc-linaro/5.3-2016.01-1/ http://snapshots.linaro.org/components/toolchain/gcc-linaro/5.3-2016.02 http://snapshots.linaro.org/components/toolchain/gcc-linaro/5.3-2016.03 http://snapshots.linaro.org/components/toolchain/gcc-linaro/5.3-2016.04 http://snapshots.linaro.org/components/toolchain/gcc-linaro/5.4-2016.06 http://snapshots.linaro.org/components/toolchain/gcc-linaro/5.4-2016.10 http://snapshots.linaro.org/components/toolchain/gcc-linaro/5.4-2016.12 http://snapshots.linaro.org/components/toolchain/gcc-linaro/5.4-2017.02 http://snapshots.linaro.org/components/toolchain/gcc-linaro/5.4-2017.04 http://snapshots.linaro.org/components/toolchain/gcc-linaro/5.5-2017.10 Contact Linaro =============== File bugs at http://bugs.linaro.org For Linaro member support see http://support.linaro.org For Linaro community support email linaro-toolchain(a)lists.linaro.org IMPORTANT NOTICE: The contents of this email and any attachments are confidential and may also be privileged. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the sender immediately and do not disclose the contents to any other person, use it for any purpose, or store or copy the information in any medium. Thank you.

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[ACTIVITY] 13 - 17 November 2017

by Prathamesh Kulkarni

== This Week == * PR82665 (3/10) - Submitted patch upstream - Blocked on POINTER_DIFF_EXPR patch by Marc Glisse. * PR82808 (1/10) - Submitted another fix but was rejected by Richard. * TCWG-1234 (4/10) - Tried tweaking with register allocator, but to no effect - Trying to think about possible approaches for stage-3 fixes. * Misc (2/10) - Meetings - Managed to get autofdo working == Next Week == - Continue ongoing tasks

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[ACTIVITY] 13-17 November 2017

by Christophe Lyon

== Progress == * GCC - FDPIC: rebased binutils patches, debugging CI loop. * GCC upstream validation: - iterating on qemu/sanitizers problems. Found a bug in arm sanitizer libs, already fixed upstream. Requested a new merge in GCC. - reported a few regressions * Infrastructure: - looking at ABE & building a native toolchain from a manifest * misc (conf-calls, meetings, emails, ....) - started looking at hcqc == Next == * GCC/FDPIC * GCC upstream validation

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[ACTIVITY] Nov 13 -- Nov 17

by Yao Qi

# Progress # * TCWG-1040, [4/10] Update my patches to remove the last use of MAX_REGISTER_SIZE. Get everything in shape. Post my 1/6 patch series. * TCWG-1159, [4/10] GDB flexible target description conversion. Post patch for tic6x, and write the patch for nios2. * ILP32 GDB. [1/10] Chat with Maxim, triage some test failures. * Open GCC PR 83010. AArch64 GCC doesn't generate DW_AT_location for TLS variable. It causes some GDB test failures. CLANG+GOLD can correctly generate DW_AT_location. * Run GDB testsuite with CLANG. [1/10] Post three patches to GDB testsuite to compile test cases with CLANG. # Plan # * TCWG-1125, ARMv8 tagged address support in GDB. -- Yao Qi

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arm-eabi toolchain memcpy using hard float causing unaligned access

by Yupeng Chang

Hi Linaro Team, I'm currently using toolchain gcc-linaro-7.1.1-2017.08-x86_64_arm-eabi.tar.xz <https://releases.linaro.org/components/toolchain/binaries/latest/arm-eabi/g…> to develop my bera-metal programs. My compile option is "-marm -march=armv7-a -mtune=cortex-a9 -mlittle-endian -mfloat-abi=hard -mfpu=neon" I found an issue, when I use memcpy, and if the DEST or SOURCE address is not 4 bytes aligned, the system hangs. It seems that this toolchain doesn't support using hard float and NEON ? My question is does this toolchain support hard float and NEON in the newlib C library? If I want to use hard float and NEON, how can I do that? Your reply is more appreciated!!

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ILP32 toolchain status update

by Maxim Kuvyrkov

Over the last couple of months arm64 community and us have tested various aspects of ILP32 toolchain and, while most of toolchain works as expected, several features are still missing. Most of the work left is on GDB side, especially using LP64 GDB to debug ILP32 applications. 1. [GCC] GCC sanitizers (ASAN, UBSAN) are not supported for ILP32. -- TCWG is working on implementing sanitizer support for ILP32. 2. [GLIBC] LP64 glibc libthread_db does not support ILP32. This causes failures when LP64 GDB is trying to debug ILP32 threaded application. It is expected by users to be able to use LP64 GDB to debug ILP32 applications (LP64 AArch64 GDB can successfully debug AArch32 applications already!). -- Steve, do you plan to work on adding libthread_db support for ILP32? 3. [GDB] Handle ILP32 siginfo layout. Kernel siginfo layout is different between LP64 and ILP32. 4. [GDB] Inferior call passing pointer argument. GDB may need update to handle 32-bit pointer vs 64-bit pointer. 5. Handle shared libraries. GDB needs to read a linked list out of the inferior, and that list is about the libraries loaded already. LP64 and ILP32 may have different layouts. 6. [GDB] GDB resolves ifunc functions, needs to read auxv (HWCAP) from the inferior. auxv is different on LP64 and ILP32. 7. [GDB] Gdbserver support for ILP32. -- Maxim Kuvyrkov www.linaro.org

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[ACTIVITY] 6 - 10 November 2017

by Prathamesh Kulkarni

== This Week == * TCWG-1234 (2/10) - Came up with another fix which works on my test-case but not on actual regression * PR82808 (2/10) - Modified patch based on upstream suggestions. * PR82665 (4/10) - Untested fix * Misc (2/10) - Meetings - Reading ipa mod/ref paper - Looked at autofdo == Next Week == - Continue ongoing tasks

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[ACTIVITY] Week 45

by Yvan Roux

== Progress == o Linaro GCC/Validation * GCC 6 and 7 2017.11 RC1 deployed * Fixed Binutils branch used for 5.5 release * Investigate and fixed Python3 issues in release notes script (patch under review) o LLVM ramp-up * Upstream bug 32999: - Still tracking corner cases * Looking at zero/sign-extension elimination status o Misc == Plan == o Release handover o LLVM tasks (Bug 32999, sign-extension)

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ILP32 sysroot image

by Adhemerval Zanella

Hi all, I just upload an sysroot image for ILP32 meant to be used on both testing and development on dev-01.tcwglab [1]. It is based on out current ILP32 GCC 7 sysroot plus some tools and it is meant to easier development and testing. It should have all native required tools for GNU development: glibc 2.27 (arm/ilp32 branch) gcc 7.2.1 (linaro/gcc-7-branch) binutils 2.28.2 (linaro_binutils-2_28-branch) gmp 6.1.2 mpfr 3.1.6 mpc 1.0.3 coreutils 8.28 bash 4.4.12 gnumake 4.2 (plus a patch to fix glob usage on glibc 2.27) gawk 4.2 perl 5.26.1 textinfo 6.5 bison 3.0.3 m4 1.4.18 libtool 2.4.5 flex 2.6.4 tcl 8.6.7 expect 5.45.3 dejagnu 1.6 sed 4.4 diffutils 3.6 tar 1.29 gzip 1.8 finutils 4.6.0 I could build and check glibc and binutils and bootstrap gcc. The binutils and gcc tests are working (dejagnu/expect/tcl is installed). To actually get a working VMs to run ILP32 you need a kernel built with different branch than either canonical Linus tree or linux stable. Easier way is to use Maxim's automated script to start a qemu aarch64 instance on r1-a7: $ WORKSPACE=`pwd` bash -x ~maxim.kuvyrkov/src/jenkins-scripts/start-container-qemu.sh \ --weight 2 --node r1-a7 --arch arm64 --distro xenial --task test --prefix ilp32_ \ --kernel_url https://people.linaro.org/~maxim.kuvyrkov/norov-Image --initrd_url \ https://cloud-images.ubuntu.com/releases/16.04/release/unpacked/ubuntu-16.0… \ --session-name ilp32-$USER --newuser $USER --cp_file ~/.ssh/authorized_keys You can then log in the machine as usual ('ssh -P r1-a7.aus-colo') and download the sysroot from dev-01.tcwglab. Just uncompress it and issue the usual chroot command: $ mkdir aarch64-linux-gnu_ilp32/proc; sudo mount -t proc proc aarch64-linux-gnu_ilp32/proc $ mkdir aarch64-linux-gnu_ilp32/sys; sudo mount -t sysfs sys aarch64-linux-gnu_ilp32/sys $ mkdir aarch64-linux-gnu_ilp32/dev; sudo mount -o bind /dev aarch64-linux-gnu_ilp32/dev $ sudo chroot aarch64-linux-gnu_ilp32 A useful package missing is GDB and python, I plan to get them built and I will update the image on dev-01.tcwglab during this week. [1] /home/tcwg-buildslave/public_html/images/ilp32/aarch64-linux-gnu_ilp32.tar.bz2

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[ACTIVITY] 6-10 November 2017

by Christophe Lyon

== Progress == * GCC - FDPIC: rebasing binutils, looking at ACI loop * GCC upstream validation: - iterating on qemu bug report (sanitizer's stoptheworld is not supported by qemu) - restarted upstream validations - not decided yet how to proceed wrt to sanitizers & validation under qemu: - disable sanitizers - switch to umeq instead of qemu - carry local gcc patches to disable lsan * Infrastructure: * misc (conf-calls, meetings, emails, ....) - started looking at hcqc == Next == * GCC/FDPIC * GCC upstream validation

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[FYI] HCQC(HPC compiler quality checker) on GitHub

by Masaki Arai

Hi, I put HCQC(HPC compiler quality checker) on GitHub. URL: https://github.com/Linaro/hcqc Any comments or suggestions are very welcome. I am going to improve README.md overall and to add more test programs. I will also report the analysis results using HCQC on hpc-sig-devel. The attached PDF file was used to explain HCQC at HPC-SIG SC meeting(11/7). I think you can reproduce the results on this slide if you modify the following part of the configuration file: hcqc/config/clang-config.json "COMMAND" : "/usr/bin/clang", "VERSION" : "4.0.1", hcqc/config/gcc-config.json "COMMAND" : "/usr/bin/gcc-7", "VERSION" : "7.1.1", which you need to fix to suit your environment. [image: https://ssl.gstatic.com/ui/v1/icons/mail/images/cleardot.gif] Best regards, -- -------------------------------------- Masaki Arai

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[ANNOUNCE] Linaro Binary Toolchain Release-Candidate GCC 7.2-2017.11-rc1

by Przemyslaw Wirkus

The Linaro Binary Toolchain ============================ The Linaro GCC 7.2-2017.11-rc1 Release-Candidate is now available. *Notice*: GCC 7.1 ABI change for arm*-*-* targets, and note for aarch64*-*-* targets >From GCC 7.1 release notes: On ARM targets (arm*-*-*), a bug introduced in GCC 5 that affects conformance to the procedure call standard (AAPCS) has been fixed. The bug affects some C++ code where class objects are passed by value to functions and could result in incorrect or inconsistent code being generated. This is an ABI change. If the option -Wpsabi is enabled (on by default) the compiler will emit a diagnostic note for code that might be affected. https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=77728 GCC 5 and GCC 6 releases will continue to be affected by the ABI bug, since changing ABI in these releases is not practical. A warning enabled by -Wpsabi option was added to GCC 5 and GCC 6 toolchains to diagnose codebases that might be affected by the ABI bug. Additionally, this same bug was present in AArch64 backend in development versions of GCC 7. There was no releases of GCC with this bug present in AArch64 backend, therefore the release notes does not mention this. However, be advised that any code bases built with development versions of GCC 7 need to be recompiled with released version of GCC 7 to conform to ABI. For an explanation of GCC 7 series changes please see the following website: https://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-7/changes.html For help in porting to GCC 7 please see the following explanation: https://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-7/porting_to.html Download release-candidate packages from: (sources) http://snapshots.linaro.org/components/toolchain/gcc-linaro/7.2-2017.11-rc1/ (binaries) http://snapshots.linaro.org/components/toolchain/binaries/7.2-2017.11-rc1/ Previous snapshots and release-candidates are at: http://snapshots.linaro.org/components/toolchain/binaries/ Previous releases are at: http://releases.linaro.org/components/toolchain/binaries/ A description of the arm and AArch64 target triples can be found at: https://collaborate.linaro.org/display/TCWGPUB/ARM+and+AArch64+Target+Tripl… Host Requirements ================== Linaro officially supports the current and previous Ubuntu LTS releases (as of the time of this release). This does not mean that the toolchain will not work on other/older Linux distributions. See the following for the life-time of Ubuntu LTS releases. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases The host system upon which the cross-compiler will run requires a minimum of glibc 2.14, because of API changes to glibc's memcpy API. https://bugs.linaro.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1869 Package Versions ================= Linaro GCC 7.2-2017.11-rc1 http://snapshots.linaro.org/components/toolchain/gcc-linaro/7.2-2017.11-rc1/ FSF glibc 2.25 (release/2.25) https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-gnu/2017-02/msg00002.html Newlib 2.5 (newlib-2_5_0 tag) https://sourceware.org/ml/newlib/2016/msg01191.html GNU Binutils 2.28 (linaro-local/linaro_binutils-2_28-branch) https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;a=blob_plain;f=bin… FSF GDB 8.0 (gdb-8.0-branch) https://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-announce/2017/msg00003.html Linaro toolchain package git branches are hosted at: http://git.linaro.org/toolchain NEWS for GCC 7 (as of Linaro GCC 7.2-2017.11-rc1) ================================================== * The Linaro GCC 7.2-2017.09 snapshot added float and integer moves improvement for AArch64 targets. * The Linaro GCC 7.1-2017.07 snapshot added prefetching configuration improvement for AArch64 targets and laid groundwork to enabling prefetching in more cases. * Previous MinGW hosted version of Linaro GCC C preprocessor failed to convert character set used for string, character constants, etc. This is fixed in this release. Linaro bugzilla #3040 : CC1 and cc1plus cannot convert UTF-8. https://bugs.linaro.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3040 * Performance related backports from the following snapshots have been included: Linaro GCC 7.1-2017.05, Linaro GCC 7.1-2017.06, Linaro GCC 7.1-2017.07, Linaro GCC 7.2-2017.08, Linaro GCC 7.2-2017.09 and Linaro GCC 7.2-2017.10. See the following Linaro GCC snapshots: http://snapshots.linaro.org/components/toolchain/gcc-linaro/7.1-2017.05/ http://snapshots.linaro.org/components/toolchain/gcc-linaro/7.1-2017.06/ http://snapshots.linaro.org/components/toolchain/gcc-linaro/7.1-2017.07/ http://snapshots.linaro.org/components/toolchain/gcc-linaro/7.2-2017.08/ http://snapshots.linaro.org/components/toolchain/gcc-linaro/7.2-2017.09/ http://snapshots.linaro.org/components/toolchain/gcc-linaro/7.2-2017.10/ Contact Linaro =============== File bugs at http://bugs.linaro.org For Linaro member support see http://support.linaro.org For Linaro community support email linaro-toolchain(a)lists.linaro.org

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[ANNOUNCE] Linaro Binary Toolchain Release-Candidate GCC 6.4-2017.11-rc1

by Przemyslaw Wirkus

The Linaro Binary Toolchain ============================ The Linaro GCC 6.4-2017.11-rc1 Release-Candidate is now available. The GCC 6 Release series has significant changes from the GCC 5 release series. For an explanation of the changes please see the following website: https://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-6/changes.html For help in porting to GCC 6 please see the following explanation: https://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-6/porting_to.html Download release-candidate packages from: (sources) http://snapshots.linaro.org/components/toolchain/gcc-linaro/6.4-2017.11-rc1/ (binaries) http://snapshots.linaro.org/components/toolchain/binaries/6.4-2017.11-rc1/ Previous snapshots and release-candidates are at: http://snapshots.linaro.org/components/toolchain/binaries/ Previous releases are at: http://releases.linaro.org/components/toolchain/binaries/ A description of the arm and AArch64 target triples can be found at: https://collaborate.linaro.org/display/TCWGPUB/ARM+and+AArch64+Target+Tripl… Host Requirements ================== Linaro officially supports the current and previous Ubuntu LTS releases (as of the time of this release). This does not mean that the toolchain will not work on other/older Linux distributions. See the following for the life-time of Ubuntu LTS releases. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases The host system upon which the cross-compiler will run requires a minimum of glibc 2.14, because of API changes to glibc's memcpy API. https://bugs.linaro.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1869 Package Versions ================= Linaro GCC 6.4-2017.11-rc1 http://snapshots.linaro.org/components/toolchain/gcc-linaro/6.4-2017.11-rc1/ Linaro glibc 2.23 (linaro/2.23/master) https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-gnu/2016-02/msg00009.html Linaro newlib 2.4-2016.03 (linaro_2.4-branch) https://sourceware.org/ml/newlib/2016/msg00370.html Linaro binutils 2.27 (linaro-local/linaro_binutils-2_27-branch) https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;a=blob_plain;f=bin… Linaro GDB 8.0 (gdb-8.0-branch) https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-gnu/2016-10/msg00007.html Linaro toolchain package git branches are hosted at: http://git.linaro.org/toolchain NEWS for GCC 6 (as of Linaro GCC 6.4-2017.11-rc1) ================================================== * Previous MinGW hosted version of Linaro GCC C preprocessor failed to convert character set used for string, character constants, etc. This is fixed in this release. Linaro bugzilla #3040 : CC1 and cc1plus cannot convert UTF-8. https://bugs.linaro.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3040 * The Linaro GCC 6.3-2017.05 snapshot added support for -mpure-code option to ARMv7-M and ARMv8-M targets. This option ensures functions are put into sections that contain only code and no data. * The GDB version was upgraded from GDB 8.0. * Previous versions of the Linaro GCC 6 toolchain, when -static -E/—dynamic-list are passed to the linker, might create executables with dynamic sections which aren’t supported by run-time. This was exhibited in Perf Tools build system and has been fixed upstream and backported into Linaro Binutils 2.27 branch. Linaro bugzilla #2926 : Perf tools compiled statically for AArch64 with Linaro release 6.1 and later ones was not statically linked. https://bugs.linaro.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2926 * The Linaro GCC 6.3-2017.03 snapshot fixed some ILP32 issues (TLS, exception handling, …) and these have been incorporated into this release. * Previous versions of the Linaro GCC 6 toolchain were incorrectly generating floating-point code for soft-float Linux targets (arm-linux-gnueabi, and armeb-linux-gnueabi). This escaped detection until recently because the soft-float targeted toolchains were configured to use general-purpose registers for passing floating-point values (which is what you would expect for soft-float toolchains) and the intra-routine floating-code was not noticed. The issue would only show up on targets that were run on hardware that truly didn't have floating-point hardware where the kernel did not trap and emulate floating-point routines. This has been solved in Linaro GCC 6.3-2017.02-rc2 by configuring the toolchain (using --with-float=soft) to generate code without any floating-point instructions at all (-mfloat-abi=soft). https://review.linaro.org/#/c/16968/2 This change should not break compatibility between existing binaries compiled with these toolchains since the float-point parameter passing ABI is still the same. * A bug/regression in the compiler has been identified whereby the target function that is invoked when calling a "weak" function directly is the "strong" override, whereas when calling the function via a pointer the "weak" implementation is used. This would be noticed as inconsistent function invocation when invoking directly vs. invoking via function pointer. This issue only affected 32-bit arm targets. This regression has been fixed upstream and backported into Linaro GCC 6.3-2017.02-rc2. GCC PR target/78253: [5/6/7 Regression] [ARM] call weak function instead of strong when called through pointer. https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=78253 Linaro bugzilla #2562: ARM GCC 5.2 call weak function instead of strong when called through pointer https://bugs.linaro.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2562 * MS Windows does not support symlinks and the MS Windows archive extractor does not properly deep copy the symlink target files/directories into the symlinked directory structure when unpacking the toolchain archive. This causes problems with missing dependencies when using the Linaro mingw toolchains, as identified in the following bugs: https://bugs.linaro.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2684 https://bugs.linaro.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2192 https://bugs.linaro.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2762 This has been solved by copying files rather than using symlinks when the mingw targetted toolchain archives are created. https://review.linaro.org/#/c/16415/ * Users of Linaro's toolchain have encountered problems when building projects with Autotools (specifically libtool): https://bugs.linaro.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2764 The Linaro binary toolchain release contained files with a .la suffix as artifacts of the toolchain build process. These .la files are helper files for libtool, but unlike a gcc install tree, they are not position independent and contain full paths. Since these artifacts contain absolute paths they can actually mislead user invocation of libtool into not finding required libraries (because they reference the build tree, not the install location) and hence breaking Autotools builds. These *.la file artifacts have been removed from Linaro toolchain binaries because they are unnecessary for users. * The Linaro GCC 6.3-2017.01 snapshot added further enablement for ARMv8-M and these have been incorporated into this release. * Compiling and statically linking some SPEC2006int tests against tcmalloc have been failing due to a problem with glibc's memory allocator function overrides. This was fixed upstream: https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=20432 Backported into Linaro glibc 2.23: commit 058b5a41d56b9a8860dede14d97dd443792d064b Author: Florian Weimer <fweimer(a)redhat.com> Date: Fri Aug 26 22:40:27 2016 +0200 malloc: Simplify static malloc interposition [BZ #20432] * Host binaries for x86_64 linux hosts now have symbols and debug information stripped in order to reduce the size of the toolchain binary archives. This reduces the archive size from 1.5G to 600M for aarch64-linux-gnu target with the gcc-6-branch. * The GDB version was upgraded from GDB 7.11 in the Linaro GCC 6.1-2016.08 release to GDB 7.12 in the Linaro GCC 6.2-2016.11 release. * The Linaro GCC 6.2-2016.10 snapshot added AArch32 support for ARMv8.2 and ARMv8m, as well as some AArch64 fixes for ARMv8.2, and bug fixes merged from FSF GCC 6.2. This is available in the binary toolchain as of Linaro GCC 6.2-2016.11. * Basic tuning support for the Qualcomm qdf24xx was added to the Linaro GCC 6.2-2016.10 snapshot and is available in the binary toolchain as of Linaro GCC 6.2-2016.11. * IFUNC was disabled for baremetal targets, as it was causing test-suite failures, and is presently a Linux only feature. * The gold linker was added to this binary release. * Backported malloc_lock fix into Linaro newlib 2.4. commit 2665915cfc46aa6403bb2efd473c523d3167e0cb Author: Andre Vieira (lists) <Andre.SimoesDiasVieira(a)arm.com> Date: Thu Jun 16 12:23:51 2016 +0100 Re-enable malloc_lock for newlib-nano * Backported rawmemchr patch into Linaro newlib 2.4. commit e7b1ee2ea6aa3ee1da41976407410e6202a098c5 Author: Wilco Dijkstra <Wilco.Dijkstra(a)arm.com> Date: Thu May 12 16:16:58 2016 +0000 Add rawmemchr * Backported strlen fix when using Thumb-2 and -Os -marm into Linaro newlib 2.4. commit 5c02bcc086a96b174e1b9e1445a4a1770070107a Author: Thomas Preud'homme <thomas.preudhomme(a)arm.com> Date: Wed May 11 17:18:48 2016 -0400 Fix strlen using Thumb-2 with -Os -marm * Backported fix for semihosting ARM when heapinfo not provided by debugger into Linaro newlib 2.4. commit 5c9403eaf40951f8a4f55ed65f661b485ff44be7 Author: David Hoover <spm2(a)dangerous.li> Date: Thu Apr 21 07:12:24 2016 +0200 Fixed semihosting for ARM when heapinfo not provided by debugger. * Merged latest FSF glibc release/2.23/master into Linaro glibc 2.23. * Backported __ASSUME_REQUEUE_PI check Linaro glibc 2.23 branch. commit 2d20c3bf918cd94ebd4106693adb3a5c9272baba Author: Adhemerval Zanella <adhemerval.zanella(a)linaro.org> Date: Tue May 17 10:16:39 2016 -0300 Add runtime check for __ASSUME_REQUEUE_PI (BZ# 18463) * Backported removal of __ASSUME_SET_ROBUST_LIST from Linaro glibc 2.23 branch. commit bb8f09d72756186a3d82a1f7b2adcf8bc1fbaed1 Author: Adhemerval Zanella <adhemerval.zanella(a)linaro.org> Date: Mon May 16 19:01:10 2016 -0300 Remove __ASSUME_SET_ROBUST_LIST * Backported removal of __ASSUME_FUTEX_LOCK_PI from Linaro glibc 2.23 branch. commit e48b4e7fed0de06dd7832ead48bea8ebc813a204 Author: Adhemerval Zanella <adhemerval.zanella(a)linaro.org> Date: Mon May 16 10:35:25 2016 -0300 Remove __ASSUME_FUTEX_LOCK_PI * Merged latest FSF binutils-2_27-branch into linaro_binutils-2_27-branch. * The libwinpthread DLL is now copied into the host bin directory to satisfy mingw package dependencies. * Backported GNU Linker fix. commit fbc6c6763e70cb2376e2de990c7fc54c0ee44a59 Author: Nick Clifton <nickc(a)redhat.com> Date: Tue Aug 23 09:45:11 2016 +0100 Fix seg-fault in ARM linker when trying to parse a binary file. * Backported GNU Assembler fix for PR 20364 commit 5fe7ebe5ab43750abf8f490b785d99a1e598e7fd Author: Nick Clifton <nickc(a)redhat.com> Date: Fri Aug 5 10:37:57 2016 +0100 Fix the generation of alignment frags in code sections for AArch64. https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=20364 * Performance related backports from the following snapshots have been included: Linaro GCC 6.1-2016.06, Linaro GCC 6.1-2016.07, Linaro GCC 6.1-2016.08, Linaro GCC 6.2-2016.09, Linaro GCC 6.2-2016.10, Linaro GCC 6.2-2016.11, Linaro GCC 6.2-2016.12, Linaro GCC 6.3-2017.01, Linaro GCC 6.3-2017.02, Linaro GCC 6.3-2017.03, Linaro GCC 6.3-2017.04, Linaro GCC 6.3-2017.05, Linaro GCC 6.3-2017.06, Linaro GCC 6.4-2017.07, Linaro GCC 6.4-2017.08, Linaro GCC 6.4-2017.09 and Linaro GCC 6.4-2017.10 . See the following Linaro GCC snapshots: http://snapshots.linaro.org/components/toolchain/gcc-linaro/6.1-2016.06/ http://snapshots.linaro.org/components/toolchain/gcc-linaro/6.1-2016.07/ http://snapshots.linaro.org/components/toolchain/gcc-linaro/6.1-2016.08/ http://snapshots.linaro.org/components/toolchain/gcc-linaro/6.2-2016.09/ http://snapshots.linaro.org/components/toolchain/gcc-linaro/6.2-2016.10/ http://snapshots.linaro.org/components/toolchain/gcc-linaro/6.2-2016.11/ http://snapshots.linaro.org/components/toolchain/gcc-linaro/6.2-2016.12/ http://snapshots.linaro.org/components/toolchain/gcc-linaro/6.3-2017.01/ http://snapshots.linaro.org/components/toolchain/gcc-linaro/6.3-2017.02/ http://snapshots.linaro.org/components/toolchain/gcc-linaro/6.3-2017.03/ http://snapshots.linaro.org/components/toolchain/gcc-linaro/6.3-2017.04/ http://snapshots.linaro.org/components/toolchain/gcc-linaro/6.3-2017.05/ http://snapshots.linaro.org/components/toolchain/gcc-linaro/6.3-2017.06/ http://snapshots.linaro.org/components/toolchain/gcc-linaro/6.4-2017.07/ http://snapshots.linaro.org/components/toolchain/gcc-linaro/6.4-2017.08/ http://snapshots.linaro.org/components/toolchain/gcc-linaro/6.4-2017.09/ http://snapshots.linaro.org/components/toolchain/gcc-linaro/6.4-2017.10/ Contact Linaro =============== File bugs at http://bugs.linaro.org For Linaro member support see http://support.linaro.org For Linaro community support email linaro-toolchain(a)lists.linaro.org

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Linux kernel compiling with LTO

by Yury Norov

Hi Maxim, all, Alex Matveev and I try to enable LTO optimization for Linux kernel on ARM64. The work is based on patches from Andi Kleen, and is not complete yet. Maxim recommended to work tightly with toolchain group to understand how to fix problems better - on kernel or compiler side. Links: My unfinished branch: https://github.com/norov/linux/tree/lto Andi Kleen tree: https://github.com/andikleen/linux-misc/tree/lto-411-1 Sami Tolvanen's recent work for clang: https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/11/3/606 Question we have for now: There's mrs_s/msr_s macro that doesn't work with LTO - linker complains very loudly that macro is either not declared, or declared multiple times. (To reproduce - try to build my kernel branch w/o last patch). The same (?) problem is observed with clang, and people there considered it as feature, not a bug. https://bugs.llvm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=19749 We have the fix for both clang and gcc, but it looks hacky. Maybe it worth to fix mrs/msr issue on toolchain side? Thanks, Yury

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[ACTIVITY] 30 October - 3 November 2017

by Prathamesh Kulkarni

== This Week == * PR82808 (4/10) - Submitted patch upstream * TCWG-1234 (4/10) - Experimenting with unhoisting approach - Working through ICE's * TCWG-319 (1/10) - Rebased and locally validated patch * Misc (1/10) - Meetings == Next Week == - Continue ongoing tasks

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